And Enough About Love

French prose writer, essayist, and playwright Hervé Le Tellier, author of two dozen books, has secured his place among world-renowned writers by releasing the sensational novel “Anomaly” in 2020, which won him the Goncourt Prize and has been translated into 40 languages. “And Enough About Love” — contrary to its title — is a novel about love. Toma Le Gall is a psychotherapist. His patient Anna falls in love at first sight with the writer Yves and is already planning to leave her husband. Toma himself falls in love with Louisa, who is also ready to leave her husband, a well-known scientist, for him. Both women have relatively successful marriages and children. Mutual passion, clouded by guilt, and the search for self on the eve of their fortieth birthdays force Anna and Louisa to make a choice: to keep their families or leave for their beloved. Hervé Le Tellier constructs a subtle game of emotions, words, and actions, reminiscent of the mysterious “Abkhazian domino” he invented.